A real Minnesota winter this year

[winterland]

It sure seems like this winter is a little more like the winters I used to remember with lots of snow and days of below zero at a time.
It can suck for anyone having to work or be outside alot. You can dress for it though.
It always seems to be hard on cars and furnaces too. Nothing worse than the car not starting and having to get to work. 
Otherwise I love a good winter with lots of nice white snow. It is somehow very peaceful. 

[MissBubu]

I don't mind the cold and the snow so much. I have a well insulated house, a plowing service to take care of the driveway, and a boss who understands that skirts are highly impractical in this weather. What really irritates me during this kind of weather is the sudden loss of brain cells in some of the drivers during rush hour.

Has anyone perfected the teleporter yet?

[Muffin]

Growing up in Fargo, ND (shut up..) I can remember brutal cold weather and being buried in snow right up to my butt, and still having to walk to school.. Yes up hill both ways..  With your scarf frozen to your face... Ah the memories..

This winter has for sure seemed colder than the last few we've had... Wasn't it just a few years ago that we didn't get any noticeable snow until January?

I hate hate hate the snow and cold, and as I get older I just hate it more..

No likey to ski, no likey to snowboard, no likey no likey no likey... 

Where is this Global Warming I was promised?

[William_MacKean]

I have lived in Lauderdale my whole life.  I remember the days of my youth when I trick-or-treated in the snow.  There were 4 such times, the last being 1991 when I was a senior in HS.  My family owned much of the Breezy Point Resort and there were snowmobiles as far as the eye could see, until 1995.  Then the snow stayed away.  It seems to have finally come back this year.  But that's ~15 years of low snow.  Deer hunting in shorts is just wrong.  2 years ago we got our first dusting of snow on X-mas eve.

I do not use a 'winter' jacket.  I only use a thin wind breaker (even in today's 10+ below zero.)  I only wore a winter jacket when I was on foot patrol around the exterior of MAC facilities in the winters after 9/11.

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

Growing up in Fargo, ND (shut up..)

FARGO?!   

I'm so sorry... 

*runs like hell*

[Whistler Fred]

Not quite as far north, of course, but here in Chicago it's been rough, particularly if you have any major commuting.  This morning it took me 2 1/2 hours to get from home to the office. Under normal condition this is a 1 hour drive.  I know of others who have been spending the night at nearby hotels rather than attempting to get home through the icy streets.

I'm ready for spring!

[white trillium]

We were up north (near Pine River) this past weekend and the kids were envious of the amount of snow there vs the snow we have in the cities.  We all enjoy out

I spent the late 70's in upstate New York (outside of Rochester) and while it was much warmer there we also received a lot of "lake effect" snow. 

I admit that the cold gets to me after a while, but I do love new snow!

[*niemi*]

It truly isn't cold until your nostrils stick together when you sniff.

[Lord Figaro]

I am soooo so glad I moved when I did, I do feel sorry for those that hate it and have to deal with it though. My father in law and I do kind of snicker when we see the weather reports from up there though.

[lady serena]

I remember in 1991 we had a blizzard on Halloween that dumped 3 + feet on us, I couldn't even find my car until I realized I was standing on it. I don't mind the snow, I hate the cold that comes after the snow fall.

[lady serena]

Where is this Global Warming I was promised?

I would also like to know where it is.

[escherblacksmith]

Good times . . .

I remember when I was but a lad in the wilds of South Dakota, the wind sweeping across the plains, where every snowstorm was a blizzard.  1974, I recall a particularly nasty storm, lasted 4 days.  My dad and the hand, shoveled their way out to the cars and barns and animals, through the drifts.  I went out to play and was able to climb up said drift and look down on my dad's head.  6-7 ft drift, right in the middle of our front yard, nothing but snow dunes as far as the 4 yr old eye could see.

Thank god I live in a city now where that really can't happen . . . still pretty brisk waiting for the school bus this morning.

[Lady_Lily]

I think the winter I remember best was one where there was so much snow that the neighbor guy was trying to dig out his car and he was waist deep in snow. School was closed for well over a week, there was so much ice that the trees were falling over, i think we lost electricity at one point, and from then I vividly remember being perched in a chair right by the window with a blanket and potato soup and I literally spent hours watching people trying to dig out of the snow. When they finally got the roads cleared...it was piled  up so high on the medians and such that you couldn't see the cars on the other side...it was like driving by walls of snow.

Today...I learned that running tights make amazing long underwear and that a winter coat isn't good enough unless topped off with a wool cloak. Yea...it's friggin cold. Will it ever warm up?

[DeadBishop]

Good times . . .

I remember when I was but a lad in the wilds of South Dakota, the wind sweeping across the plains, where every snowstorm was a blizzard.  1974, I recall a particularly nasty storm, lasted 4 days.  My dad and the hand, shoveled their way out to the cars and barns and animals, through the drifts.  I went out to play and was able to climb up said drift and look down on my dad's head.  6-7 ft drift, right in the middle of our front yard, nothing but snow dunes as far as the 4 yr old eye could see.

Thank god I live in a city now where that really can't happen . . . still pretty brisk waiting for the school bus this morning.

<------------(also from SD)

Yep, I remember those storms too.  It couldn't just snow, oh no.  Had to be 50mph winds too.  If I can find it, I have a picture somewhere of me as a kid sledding off my house's roof.  The snow drifts were going OVER the house.  You could walk right up the drift on one side and step onto the roof of most of the single story and some two story houses in town. 



Here's a picture from one of the last big snow falls here in MN.  That's my snow shovel, up to the top of the handle.  I had to dig it out to get to it.

[SleepyArcher]

Muffin, I too am from Fargo but also moved farther North past Grand Forks where it was -20 in January all the time. Blizzards all the time and lots of being out of school. I also remember having to walk to school in Elementary as there was no busing (sp) for city kids. It was like a mile to school. On really really cold days my mom may have given me a ride to school if she could get out of work. What I really hated was in High School all the farm kids came in the diesel trucks and kept them running from after lunch until after school was out and the rest of us were jumping cars and freezing as they just drove off in a warm truck...damn them!!